Qian Yan
Position
Master's Student
Department
School of Industrial Design
Contact
qyan8@asu.edu
Publications
Student project aimed at helping the visually impaired take notes in class wins prize at Microsoft Imagine Cup
2011
Note-taker 3.0: an assistive technology enabling students who are legally blind to take notes in class
2011
Projects
To take notes in class, students with visual impairments must rapidly switch between writing their notes (a near-sight task) and viewing a board at the front of the classroom (a far-sight task). Current assistive technologies provide magnification for near-sight tasks,…